Social Reform

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    • And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System
    • Auteur(s): Jed S. Rakoff
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 5 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff, a leading authority on white-collar crime, explores this and other puzzles in a startling account of our broken legal system....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Stefania Auci, Francesca Maccani
    • Narrateur(s): Cristina Del Sordo
    • Durée: 1 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-22
    • Langue: Italien
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Il problema dell'educazione appare oggi uno degli argomenti caldi e maggiormente discussi soprattutto fra i non addetti ai lavori. Esso riguarda infatti non solamente la scuola in generale ma, nel complesso, la persona e la società. Riguarda non solo la didattica ma tutte quelle...

    Prix courant: 4,17$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
    • Auteur(s): Diane Ravitch
    • Narrateur(s): Amanda Carlin
    • Durée: 13 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Ritz, Suzie Boss
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Ritz
    • Durée: 8 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Teacher Stephen Ritz shows you how, in one of the nation's poorest communities, his students thrive by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • Children in America's Schools
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Winston
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-03-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A New Answer for Our Broken Education System
    • Auteur(s): Ron Paul
    • Narrateur(s): Steve Coulter
    • Durée: 5 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Whether or not you have children, you know that education is vital to the prosperity and future of our society....

    Prix courant: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
    • Auteur(s): Diane Ravitch
    • Narrateur(s): Eliza Foss
    • Durée: 14 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • America's foremost historian of education renounces her support for reform policies implemented over the past decade that she says are wrecking America's cherished tradition of public education....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Gumbel
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 9 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Won't Lose This Dream describes how the architects of Georgia State's success harnessed the power of evolving data technologies, a "moneyball" strategy that helped them recognize and remove the obstacles that have held poor students back....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Conservative Case for Liberal Education
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Marks
    • Narrateur(s): John McLain
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
    • Auteur(s): Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 8 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Find out....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
    • Auteur(s): Alan Greenspan
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting....

    Prix courant: 37,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Love and Death in Chicago
    • Auteur(s): Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Alex Kotlowitz
    • Durée: 9 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Over the past 20 years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals who have emerged from the violence....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World
    • Auteur(s): Yong Zhao
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Zeller
    • Durée: 6 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? by award-winning writer Yong Zhao offers an entertaining, provocative insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both "the best and worst" in the world....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Fight to Change Policing in America
    • Auteur(s): Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld
    • Narrateur(s): Edwin Raymond
    • Durée: 10 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history takes a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform.

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
    • Auteur(s): Arthur Levine, Scott J. Van Pelt
    • Narrateur(s): Perry Daniels
    • Durée: 9 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today—and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a historical, cross-industry perspective, they perform a survey of American higher education....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Instrument of Change
    • Auteur(s): Russell J. Quaglia, Michael J. Corso
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Lord
    • Durée: 7 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals—and when students know they’re being heard, they engage meaningfully in their own academic success....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
    • Auteur(s): Anya Kamenetz
    • Narrateur(s): Anya Kamenetz
    • Durée: 11 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net—the public school system—was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Educational Leadership for Justice
    • Auteur(s): Manya C. Whitaker
    • Narrateur(s): Julienne Irons
    • Durée: 8 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Efforts to address inequities within our schools tend to ignore the underlying beliefs that sustain injustices, and focus instead on short-lived policies and practices. This book takes a different approach to eradicating educational disparities....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • White Chalk Crime: The Stunning First-Ever Explanation for School Shootings and How We End Them
    • Auteur(s): Karen Horwitz M.Ed
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Horwitz M.Ed
    • Durée: 12 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Karen Horwitz, aka the CHANGE EVERYTHING TEACHER, takes those who cherish democracy and fear autocracy on a journey deep inside our schools, where the root of many of this nation's challenges lies.

    Prix courant: 20,45$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
    • Auteur(s): Philip K. Howard
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Thatcher
    • Durée: 2 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Everyday Freedom offers a radical reinterpretation of the corrosion of American culture....

    Prix courant: 10,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 10,01$ ou 1 crédit